Walking Elephant 3D Zoetrope 3D Printer Model

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File formats: STL,ino
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Size:11.2MB

The file 'Walking Elephant 3D Zoetrope 3D Printer Model' is (STL,ino) file type, size is 11.2MB.

Summary

Video of zoetrope in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E09L5mKf18

These are 3D models of working 3D zoetrope. There are 10 poses of walking elephant.
In this version I used stepper motor and LED strobe light controlled by arduino. I'm planning to improve design in the future. The best effect can be observed in the dark, ambient light will add motion smudges.

The elephants print better upside down, they need to be resized to scale of 0.3 (sorry, forgot to do that before exporting to STL).

The elephants then need to be glued to the inserts using glue gun and then inserted into the disk. The trick is to align the animals in the same order, 01 to 10. If some poses don't align, a head gun can be used to melt the glue and re-adjust pose correspondingly.

The purpose of inserts is to be able to use different animations on the same rig. However you can glue the elephants to the disk, in this case no need to print the inserts.

More details on http://www.cthackerspace.com/lets-not-ignore-the-elephant-in-the-room/

base.STL 50.0KB
disk.STL 264.1KB
ee01.STL 2.4MB
ee02.STL 2.4MB
ee03.STL 2.4MB
ee04.STL 2.4MB
ee05.STL 2.4MB
ee06.STL 2.4MB
ee07.STL 2.4MB
ee08.STL 2.4MB
ee09.STL 2.4MB
ee10.STL 2.4MB
insert.STL 11.5KB
zoetrope.ino 1.1KB